Foreword |
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INTRODUCTION: Around and Around: |
The Importance of Cycles |
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ONE: Seeing Cycles |
3 |
Measuring the Tide |
A Short Math Lesson |
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TWO: Putting Cycles on the Map |
9 |
Found in the Crowd |
A Day in the Life |
Longer than a Day |
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THREE: What Drives Cycles? |
15 |
The Environment's Role |
Evidence Against Control by Environment |
Internal Sources of Rhythms |
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FOUR: Discovering the Wheel: The Origin of Cycles |
29 |
Internal Timekeeping |
Tuning Internal and External Rhythms |
Constancy Versus Rhythmicity |
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FIVE: Keeping in Step with Rhythms |
43 |
Shifting Schedules |
Finding the Rhythm Range |
Detecting Disease |
Treating Disease |
Rhythms in Ecology |
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SIX: Early Adventures in Chronobiology |
57 |
A Puzzle of Fluctuation |
A Puzzle of Timing |
A Puzzle of Light |
Further Pursuit of Rhythms |
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SEVEN: Activities in Chronobiology |
65 |
Running Hot and Cold |
Heart Rate |
How Time Flies |
How Flies Time |
Run, Rodent, Run |
Tip Twining |
Plant "Sleep" Movement |
A Colorful Revolution |
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Bibliography |
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